THE MOTHER OF INVENTION!

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

THE MOTHER OF INVENTION!

Jer 18:4-6

4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord.

           Surely you’ve noticed that things are not normal around here – or anywhere, for that matter. So many things we had taken for granted are either gone or in short supply. Many of the “tools” of life have gone away and we have had to “invent” other tools and procedures. We adjust! We improvise!

           God made us flawless, but sin marred us in His mighty hands. The vessel he imagined for us was ruined and worthless but the clay with which He began was still usable, so He began to make us again. The first thing He had to do was to deal with sin. He did that by sacrificing His own Son.

           The clay was now resistant to the potter’s hands, but He is a master at His art, and worked with the yielded parts. Necessity had become the mother of invention!

           Has sin marred your life and ruined God’s original plans for you? Do you feel you will never measure up to God’s design? Well, yield all that you can to God. Let Him have as much of you as you are able to give. He is a master of His craft and will take your ruined life and make something beautiful of it.

Dear Lord, we are just clay but you are the potter. Take our ruined and shapeless mass and make it into something useful and beautiful. AMEN